Salford City v Cheltenham Town:

[Jon Palmer]

Team news, live updates and reaction all here this afternoon:

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/s ... wn-9756940

[Shade]

Bennett mistake... at least we haven't seen that for a couple of months.

Long way back already at 2-0. Maybe it's a good job it can't be watched online.

[Jerry St Clair]

Sounds like 40 minutes of relative, if unthreatening, comfort with five mad minutes sandwiched in the middle.

[Shade]

The way I've read it, we could be 4 down and their forward Taylor has been booked and must be about on his final warning by now.

[Shade]

Had absolutely no doubt the penalty wouldn't be scored. It's so weird, when we're having a day we can't even score penalties.

[Shade]

Forget that, then. Not looking good for the visit of the league leaders on Tuesday.

[Horteng]

Expensive off day by the sounds of it which is shame

Concentrate on the league now I guess

[Warwickshire Robin]

Sadly a terrible performance reminiscent of pre Swindon. Teams have sussed out Archer is our main threat and mark him out of the game so we resort to aimless hoofball with no physical threat up front.

A tactical reset is needed I think and maybe inevitable if Bennetts injury is as bad as it looks.

[Fuller]

Whole day sounded like a disaster.
Abysmal attendance under 2,000 so minimal gate receipts, but well done to the 400 of ours who were sadly let down by too many on the pitch.
Hope Bennett isn’t too badly injured, we’re short of decent centre halves already.
Squad definitely needs a shake up in January, a decent cup run this year would have probably have helped that, not much room for manoeuvre now so I’ll be happy if we finish 10 points off the bottom two now.

[Malabus]

Sadly a terrible performance reminiscent of pre Swindon. Teams have sussed out Archer is our main threat and mark him out of the game so we resort to aimless hoofball with no physical threat up front.

A tactical reset is needed I think and maybe inevitable if Bennetts injury is as bad as it looks.

Has Archer been thinking too much about a potential big move - affecting his game. Remember Ryan Broom.

[Warwickshire Robin]

Sadly a terrible performance reminiscent of pre Swindon. Teams have sussed out Archer is our main threat and mark him out of the game so we resort to aimless hoofball with no physical threat up front.

A tactical reset is needed I think and maybe inevitable if Bennetts injury is as bad as it looks.

Has Archer been thinking too much about a potential big move - affecting his game. Remember Ryan Broom.

I wouldn’t have thought so, more likely teams have taken notice of his good form and planned to nullify him. It's up to Ethan now to work out how to get round that and/or Cheltenham have to work out how to take advantage of the extra space left by the opposition doubling up on him like Joel Colwill did against Tranmere.

[paperboy]

A performance that brings home to us that we're a bog standard L2 team and that isn't a moan just reality.
So results like this will happen.
A decent run and then a slump maybe on what is likely to be a rollercoaster of a season full of highs and lows.
If Bennett has a fairly serious injury it can definitely be said that along with Pell and Haynes, that Lady Luck is being pretty brutal
Atm.
Flynny probably envisaged Taylor and Bowman being our starting strikers but that hasn't worked out meaning most of our experienced players just haven't been able to contribute.
Guess he'll make a few changes for Tuesday and a good result against a strong team will fill us with optimism again.
Let's hope so anyway.

[HamTown]

1 mistake 2 mistake 3 mistake goal. How often have we seen that?

From the seats I actually thought Thomas got a toe on the ball, regardless very dozy to be trying to control the ball there.

Thought Bennett had a right stinker. Slow, poor passes, bad control.

Norkett and Dulson got involved, Bowman and Taylor did not.

[Robin]

The way I've read it, we could be 4 down and their forward Taylor has been booked and must be about on his final warning by now.

Yep could have been four down first half, mistakes all over the pitch but Thomas and Bennett the main culprits. Absolute moment of madness by Jordan to give them a penalty when he had the ball and just miscontrolled it trying to dribble out the box. Young and Kinsella were over ran in midfield, Payne couldn't cope with their little winger and we resorted to just lumping it forward.

Second half we improved and penned them back to defending their box without forcing much out of their keeper. Penalthy miss just looked obvious, said just before it was taken we miss this. After that we lost faith and the game just ran out of steam. Seems like Bennett went down with what could be a career ending injury late on too just to make it worse.

Overall extremely disappointing day out and the only players to come out with credit today were Day and Stubbs.

[horlickfanclub]

The way I've read it, we could be 4 down and their forward Taylor has been booked and must be about on his final warning by now.

Yep could have been four down first half, mistakes all over the pitch but Thomas and Bennett the main culprits. Absolute moment of madness by Jordan to give them a penalty when he had the ball and just miscontrolled it trying to dribble out the box. Young and Kinsella were over ran in midfield, Payne couldn't cope with their little winger and we resorted to just lumping it forward.

Second half we improved and penned them back to defending their box without forcing much out of their keeper. Penalthy miss just looked obvious, said just before it was taken we miss this. After that we lost faith and the game just ran out of steam. Seems like Bennett went down with what could be a career ending injury late on too just to make it worse.

Overall extremely disappointing day out and the only players to come out with credit today were Day and Stubbs.

Insensitive to speculate on a players career. No reason to mention "career ending".This is his living.

[Jerry St Clair]

Some incredibly unpleasant people on social media gleeful at Bennett’s injury. Football Twitter/Facebook really can be the absolute pits.

[Ihearye]

Some incredibly unpleasant people on social media gleeful at Bennett’s injury. Football Twitter/Facebook really can be the absolute pits.

The irony of being called social , media . The fantasy land for weirdos

[Si Robin]

Some incredibly unpleasant people on social media gleeful at Bennett’s injury. Football Twitter/Facebook really can be the absolute pits.

I'd love to say I'm shocked, but nothing surprises me with things like this anymore.

[Warwickshire Robin]

Some incredibly unpleasant people on social media gleeful at Bennett’s injury. Football Twitter/Facebook really can be the absolute pits.

I'd love to say I'm shocked, but nothing surprises me with things like this anymore.

Yes its a really sad state of affairs. A few of our supporters who were there on Saturday need to take a look at themselves as well as they were booing and giving loads of stick to their lad who was also carried off on a stretcher.

I know that modern footballers do themselves no favours with all of the histrionics but I think most can tell when an injury is potentially serious and the sight of Gav Crowe coming on to assist their medical team and the stretcher coming on should be sign enough that there wasn't any messing about going on. I found that pretty embarrassing and spoilt what was an otherwise excellent noisy performance from our fans.

[everyman]

Sadly a terrible performance reminiscent of pre Swindon. Teams have sussed out Archer is our main threat and mark him out of the game so we resort to aimless hoofball with no physical threat up front.

A tactical reset is needed I think and maybe inevitable if Bennetts injury is as bad as it looks.

Has Archer been thinking too much about a potential big move - affecting his game. Remember Ryan Broom.

I wouldn’t have thought so, more likely teams have taken notice of his good form and planned to nullify him. It's up to Ethan now to work out how to get round that and/or Cheltenham have to work out how to take advantage of the extra space left by the opposition doubling up on him like Joel Colwill did against Tranmere.

Any player with football intelligence and confidence will naturally use that space,unfortunately we have few of those !

[CTFC.Harry]

Some incredibly unpleasant people on social media gleeful at Bennett’s injury. Football Twitter/Facebook really can be the absolute pits.

It's criminal really. To my eye, the bloke gives it 100% every game which is #1 importance to me as a supporter. He's not been as bad as people make out either. Very strange behaviour.

[Shade]

Some incredibly unpleasant people on social media gleeful at Bennett’s injury. Football Twitter/Facebook really can be the absolute pits.

It's criminal really. To my eye, the bloke gives it 100% every game which is #1 importance to me as a supporter. He's not been as bad as people make out either. Very strange behaviour.

Exactly. I've given Bennett a good load of criticism this season, but effort hasn't been part of it (that I can remember). I don't know how anybody can call themselves a fan of the club and be glad one of our players has picked up a potentially serious injury. It kind of sums the country/modern life up. These are presumably the same kind of people that would deliberately kick someone in the head when they're on the ground if they were having a fight.

[Robin]

Some incredibly unpleasant people on social media gleeful at Bennett’s injury. Football Twitter/Facebook really can be the absolute pits.

It's criminal really. To my eye, the bloke gives it 100% every game which is #1 importance to me as a supporter. He's not been as bad as people make out either. Very strange behaviour.

Fully agree with this, his worst performances were when he was asked to play out of position in midfield that is not his fault. At the back he gives 100% every week and organises our defence, which was needed when we had Evans in goal.

At Salford there were some of our fans actually cheering when he went down injured and had to be stretchered off. I wonder if these fans ever saw the likes of CBB in a Cheltenham shirt.

[Jerry St Clair]

Salford away at Man City in R3.

Of course they are.

[Basildon Robin]

Oh dear. That’s another kick in the teeth for the Robins missing out on a trip to the Premier League Champions. Really nothing is going right for them since Flynn and Johnson took over. The Rotherham result turned out to be nothing more than a red herring.

[Malabus]

This draw is more sickening than the defeat on Saturday. I really hate this club.

[ctfc-fan]

This draw is more sickening than the defeat on Saturday. I really hate this club.

Bye then.

[Shade]

Bennett looking at weeks out, rather than months, after the scan, according to JP.

[Si Robin]

That'll disappoint the idiots cheering his injury!